Alison Jayne Merrien (born 28 November 1974)
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player from Saint Peter Port
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, Guernsey.
Bowls career
Indoors
Merrien won double gold in the women's singles defeating Karen Murphy and the mixed pairs with Simon Skelton
Simon Skelton is an English international lawn and indoor bowler.
Bowls career
Simon bowls for the Nottingham indoor club and Stute outdoor bowls club. During the 2002 Commonwealth Games he was part of the fours that won the gold medal with Jo ...
the 2011 World Indoor Bowls Championship
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Winners
Draw and results
Men's singles
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
Women's singles
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. She won a third medal eight years later in 2019 losing out to Julie Forrest of Scotland in the final. In 2022, she finally claimed a third title when winning the mixed pairs with Paul Foster and also reached the women's singles final.
In the southern hemisphere equivalent the World Cup Singles
World Cup Singles
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she has won two titles in 2008 and 2012 and has finished runner up on three more occasions. In 2022, Merrien won the mixed pairs at the inaugural World Bowls Indoor Championships
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, partnering Stewart Anderson, they defeated Michael Stepney
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Bowls career
He won the Scottish National Singles Championship in 2009 and the British Isles Singles Championship the following year. In 2017 he finished runner-up in the ...
and Claire Anderson in the final.
In addition she has claimed three IIBC singles titles in 2009, 2011 & 2015[
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Outdoors
By virtue of winning her national title she qualified to represent Guernsey at the World Singles Champion of Champions The World Singles Champion of Champions is an event inaugurated in 2003 that is contested annually between bowlers who have won their respective national singles title.
The event was first held in 2003 at the Moama Bowling Club in Moama, Australia ...
in 2007 where she defeated Siti Zalina Ahmad
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Bowls career
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in the final to win the gold medal.
Awards
Merrien was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire
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(MBE) for services to bowls in the 2012 New Year Honours
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References
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Living people
Guernsey female bowls players
1974 births
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Indoor Bowls World Champions
People from Saint Peter Port